Furthermore, the wood used to cure tobacco in some places leads to deforestation.
Yeager wondered what it had been for: curing tobacco, maybe.
There are four common methods of curing tobacco: air curing, fire curing, flue curing, and sun curing.
Cavendish is a process of curing and cutting tobacco.
In 1984 the number of agricultural and sideline products subject to state planning and purchasing quotas was reduced from twenty-nine to ten and included cereal grains, edible oil, cured tobacco, jute, hemp, and pigs.
It was until the 1990s best known for producing very high quality flue cured tobacco.
Diversification from traditional flue cured tobacco to include burley tobacco and other modes of agriculture is underway.
The tobacco mosaic virus has been known to cause a production loss for flue cured tobacco of up to two percent in North Carolina.
Cotton declined after 1921, when the boll weevil arrived, but was already being replaced by flue cured tobacco as the primary money crop for farmers.
In Kentucky, instead of curing tobacco attached to laths in vented tobacco barns as they once did, farmers are increasingly curing tobacco on "scaffolds" in the fields.